At 10:30 a.m. Mountain time, Senator Larry Craig of Idaho is scheduled to formally resign from Congress, after the revelation of his June arrest for lewd conduct in a public restroom in Minneapolis and guilty plea to a lesser charge on August 1. The resignation comes after nearly a week's worth of drum-beating led by Craig's own party.

Former Congressman Larry LaRocco, a former aide to the legendary Frank Church, served two terms as the representative from Idaho's First District. As the Democratic candidate for Craig's Senate seat, he's literally working his way across his home state in jobs ranging from hauling garbage in Orofino to making cheese in Twin Falls. We caught up with LaRocco at YearlyKos 2007, weeks before the Craig scandal broke.

From YearlyKos 2007: Correspondent Timothy Smith interviews U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Christopher Dodd.

Chris Dodd for President

From YearlyKos 2007 in Chicago: Kay Shepherd talks with Daniel Biss, a University of Chicago mathematician running for the Illinois Legislature in District 17, who hopes to make Netroots fundraising history in the process.

Daniel Biss for State Representative

 From YearlyKos 2007: Correspondent Timothy Smith talks with Bill Foster, who plans to challenge former House Speaker Dennis Hastert in Illinois District 14.

From YearlyKos 2007: Kay Shepherd of ePluribus Media
interviews Texas State Rep. Rick Noriega, who plans to run against Republican incumbent John Cornyn for the U.S. Senate.

Rick Noriega for U.S. Senate

 More Yearly Kos followup -- correspondent Timothy D. Smith interviews Fighting Dem David T. Harris, running in Texas CD 6 against Big Friend of Big Oil Joe Barton. See and read more from YK at the EPMedia Community site.

Yet another cast from Yearly Kos 2006 in Las Vegas -- today featuring correspondent Timothy D. Smith's interview with Charlie Brown, running in California CD 4 against K Street superstar John Doolittle. See and read more from YK at the EPMedia Community site.

Our second cast from Yearly Kos 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada! Correspondent Timothy D. Smith interviews John Laesch, who's running in Illnois CD 14 against Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. See and read more from YK at the EPMedia Community site.

EPMedia podcasts from Yearly Kos in Las Vegas! Check out today's three-minute rundown, and visit the Community site for more information.

In this week's podcast, documentary photographer, radio host and humanitarian activist Michael Hyatt talks about the risks and rewards of working with No More Deaths on the Arizona-Mexico border. Host: Kay Shepherd.

Related links:

• ePluribus Media Podcast #13 -- Immigrants in the Desert: An Interview with Margo Cowan
• "Charged With Possession of a Conscience" -- Vivian Pettyjohn's original diary on the Strauss-Sellz case
• The No More Deaths Web site
  
• Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge at the University of Arizona Press
• The KXCI Web site